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Minnesota Timberwolves – Don’t Count Them Out Just Yet
As Kevin Love picked up his 50th double double of the season, the Minnesota Timberwolves find themselves once again above .500 this season, beating the Denver Nuggets 132-128 on the road, keeping their hopes of somehow making the playoffs alive.
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Minnesota Timberwolves – Kevin Love is Delight to Watch
Playoff team or not, the Minnesota Timberwolves are one of the more fun to watch in the NBA, beginning with Kevin Love who can do it all on offense with another great night, Ricky Rubio who hit a close to impossible layup and even Shabazz Muhammad, coming to life all of a sudden with his best game of his rookie season.
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Timberwolves Over Pacers – The Power of the Love & Rubio Connection
Maybe the news of the Indiana Pacers looking for a trade trickled down to the players as they paid the Minnesota Timberwolves a visit. Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio didn’t feel too intimidated by the best defense in the NBA and simply made the Eastern conference leaders look mediocre early on, falling too far behind to catch up.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Complicated Without a Reason
Facing the Minnesota Timberwolves who were without Kevin Love and Nikola Pekovic should have meant a much easier game for the Oklahoma City Thunder, but Ricky Rubio giving an uncharacteristic offensive performance almost cost Kevin Durant an unexpected home loss.
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Minnesota Timberwolves – It’s Easy Against the Injured Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls are used to playing with injuries, but there comes a point when it’s too difficult to make up for some of them. Joakim Noah didn’t play against the Minnesota Timberwolves, which made things quite easy for Kevin Love, Ricky Rubio and a very surprising Ronny Turiaf.
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Minnesota Timberwolves Need More of This Ricky Rubio
If the Minnesota Timberwolves are to break their postseason drought and make the playoffs, they’re going to need a lot more games such as the one Ricky Rubio brought in the 112-97 win over the Utah Jazz. There are better scorers than him on the team like Kevin Love and Kevin Martin, but he’s the one who makes it all work when he’s having a good day.
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Minnesota Timberwolves – This is How Ricky Rubio Should Play
The player that determines whether the Minnesota Timberwolves are going to be good or not is Ricky Rubio. In the 124-112 win over the New Orleans Pelicans, the Spainsh point guard had his best game of the season, and as a result everyone around him benefited.
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Minnesota Timberwolves – Kevin Love Great but Ricky Rubio Makes the Difference
Few players in the NBA have the ability to pull off impressive stat lines quite like Kevin Love. The problem here is no matter who huge of a night he’s going to have, the Minnesota Timberwolves depend a lot more on Ricky Rubio having a good game than the player who just might be the best power forward in the NBA.
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Minnesota Timberwolves – Suddenly Stunning the Best Team in the West
Well, the Portland Trail Blazers are no longer the best in the Western conference, as the tiresome route of playing four road games in five days became a bit too much in the end of their game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, succumbing to a near triple double from Kevin Love, leading his team back to .500 with the 120-109 win.
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Nets vs Timberwolves – Kevin Love Continues His Double Double Crusade
It’s hard to believe anyone is going to vote for Kevin Love when the MVP award is up. Too much of a numbers guy on a good, but not great Minnesota Timberwolves team. However, it’s hard to deny how well he’s playing, with the stats to show it, including 13 double-double performances since the start of the season, adding another one (17-16) as his team easily brushed aside the pathetic Brooklyn Nets 111-81.